Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39
LV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39 (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,600,104 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($10,006,742). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.6M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $119M
What Lv Public Telecommunications Corp Wlvt-Tv Channel 39 does
Mission
"to educate, inspire, inform, entertain and stimulate the exchange of ideas for the enrichment of the public" begins with the broadcast of pbs programs that highlight issues of national importance, continues with the production of our emmy award winning local programs that explore the critical concerns of our region as well as offer possible solutions, and further touches our community through our educational outreach programs; with a focus on improving reading, literacy and internet safety. This multi-faceted approach allows the community to become active and empowered citizens equipped with the knowledge necessary to improve their quality of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Wlvt operates a public television station serving a four county area with over 12,000 members. Pbs39 provides to the community:- the broadcast of non-commercial television programs into 2.6 million households within eastern pennsylvania and western new jersey with 5.2 million viewers. - early childhood education for thousands of preschoolers and their parents each year as well as educational classroom services, including web-based archives of thousands of educational materials to develop curriculum that impacts students and teachers on a daily basis. - award-winning local documentary and public affairs programs.
$5,964,506 spent$303,820 earned by the program92% of program spendingAll day npr style radio news serving the lehigh valley, pennsylvania and western new jersey
$513,500 spent8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,478,006.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $163M to $43M (−74%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 16% · 2019 11% · 2020 11% · 2021 6% · 2022 10% · 2023 1% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of LV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Timothy S Fallon
President/CEO thru 6/24
Board chair
Michael S Keim
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $1.7M.
8 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $18M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Pbs 39 Foundation Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money LV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39 raised.
From the IRS filings of LV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
LV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund LV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 97% · 2019 95% · 2020 88% · 2021 43% · 2022 38% · 2023 68% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
32% of LV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
LV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39 draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $472k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
LV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Wlvt Re Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39?
- LV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39 (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,600,104 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($10,006,742). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39 have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $14,600,104 in grants to LV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $10,006,742 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39 find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 44 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing